Melvin Silverstein, MD
Surgical Oncology · Newport Beach, CANPI 1699707372
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $15,720 of the $18,481 with a category attached, or 85.1%. Vector Surgical, LLC accounts for 91.9% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $4,694, 2.1 times the $2,189 reported in 2019.
Across 91 payments — averaging $203.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Vector Surgical, LLC$17K
- Sirius Medical Systems$585
- Endomagnetics Ltd$277
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$241
- Focal Therapeutics, Inc.$201
- Hologic Sales And Service, LLC$91
- plus $96 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$15,72085%
- Food & beverage$2,76115%
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Vector Surgical, LLC | 78 | $16,990 |
| Sirius Medical Systems | 5 | $585 |
| Endomagnetics Ltd | 2 | $277 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $241 |
| Focal Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $201 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $91 |
| Cardinal Health 414 LLC | 1 | $49 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 1 | $47 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- SilversteinWrap$11,820
- Silverstein Wrap$3,012
- PINTUITION$394
- Magseed$277
- MarginMarker$200
- BioZorb$191
- Magtrace$169
- SENTIMAG$169
How this compares
$18,481 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 209 surgical oncology providers in California.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Other surgical oncology in Newport Beach
- Afshin BahadorSan Diego$701K
- Amir FathiFresno$255K
- Alexander ChristSanta Monica$239K
- Yanghee WooDuarte$131K
- Michael BouvetSan Diego$118K
- Yuman FongDuarte$87K
- Ronald HurstLos Angeles$76K
- Jason Sicklickla Jolla$69K
- Mohammed Al-TemimiSan Jose$39K
- Gagandeep SinghDuarte$38K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.